All of these played important roles!
The mining industry enabled the excavation of many important and precious minerals which wre later used in differetn technological applciations.
The railroads increased the speed by which things were being transmitted.
The cattle business enabled people to sustain themselves through food.
The homestead act enabled people to become self-sufficient.
The criminal trial is when two parties, a prosecutor representing the government and a defense attorney representing the accused, meet in court before a judge or jury in order to present evidence to support their case
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His father tried shielding him from poverty. He did not want his son to see poverty and the bad conditions people there were living in at the time, especially in the countryside. He didn't consider his son seeing these things in his life would help him in his journey through life.